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Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc PETER L. STERN & COMPANY, INC. Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc. 15 COURT SQUARE, BOSTON, MA 02108 TELEPHONE 617 542 2376 FAX 617 542 3263 EMAIL [email protected] Gandhi - Signed - #80 Ulysses - 1/750 - #106 Hillary by Karsh - #134 Gershwin - Inscribed - #81 Fitzgerald Letters - #62-#69 Eisenhower - Inscribed - #57 Ordering information. Please confirm the availability of your choices before submitting payment. You may confirm by telephone, email, fax, or mail. When out of the office we have voice mail. We accept VISA, Mastercard, and American Express. Massachusetts residents must add 5% sales tax. All items are guaran- teed as described and may be returned for any reason. Please notify us within three days of receipt and note the reason for the return. All items should be shipped fully insured. Shipping charges: $9.00 for the first item, $2.00 for each additional item. Shipping of sets or unusual items (framed pieces, etc.) will be billed at cost, as will foreign orders. We generally ship domestic orders via U.P.S., so please supply a street address. Orders can be sent via the U.S. Postal Service if so requested. FEBRUARY / MARCH 2010 PETER L. STERN & COMPANY, INC. 7. [BEARDSLEY] GALLATIN, ALBERT AND ALEXANDER D. WAINWRIGHT. The Gallatin Beardsley Collection in the Princeton University Library: A Catalogue. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 1952. Publisher’s wrappers; the upper wrapper dupli- cates a Beardsley design for the Keynotes series. Very good. $65.00 8. BEAUMONT, CHARLES. The Hunger and Other Stories. New York: Putnam’s, 1957. First Edition. A near fine copy in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author in 1957. $1500.00 9. [BLACK SUN PRESS] BELL, MILLICENT. The Black Sun Press: 1927 to the Present. Provi- dence, Rhode Island: Brown University, 1955. Books at Brown: Vol. XVII, No. 1-2; publisher’s wrappers: Very good. $35.00 1. ADAMS, RICHARD. Watership Down. 14. BURNETT, W.R. Little Caesar. New York: 10. [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS] FAHY, London: Paradine, 1976. First illustrated edition Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial Press, 1929. First CONOR. Printing a Book at Verona in 1622. (1972); one of 250 copies signed by Adams and Edition; advance copy, consisting of the signatures Paris: Fondation Custodia, 1993. First Edition. illustrator John Lawrence. This special issue of bound in a plain paper wrapper. Some penciled A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. $100.00 ten copies was prepared four years after the 1972 notes on the first blank regarding another book; publication; with an original fore-edge painting numerous editorial annotations in the text, and a watercolor drawing by Lawrence, signed probably for reprinting or serialization; minor with initials by the artist. Publisher’s full green soiling. $5000.00 morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; fine in the original matching slipcase. $5000.00 15. BURNETT, W.R. The Goodhues of Sink- ing Creek. Los Angeles: The Raven’s Head Press, 2. [ALCOTT, BRONSON] MCCUSKEY, 1931. First Edition. Privately printed; one of 50 DOROTHY. Bronson Alcott, Teacher. New numbered copies; publisher’s wrappers; minor York: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition. Fine in a browning and wear; near fine. A trade edition was very good price-clipped dust jacket. $45.00 issued three years later. This copy was inscribed by the author in 1944. $350.00 3. [ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY] WORTHING- TON, MARJORIE. Miss Alcott of Concord. 16. BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Unused Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. First Edition. Dust Jackets for Back to the Stone Age and Fine in a very good dust jacket. $35.00 Tarzan and the Forbidden City. Tarzana: E.R.B., Inc., 1937 & 1938. Both are first edition dust 4. [AMERICANA] JAY, JOHN. Some Con- jackets with minor creases from folding, and very versations of Dr. Franklin and Mr. Jay. New slight wear. $200.00 Haven: Three Monks Press, 1936. First Edition. One of 247 copies. Near fine. $100.00 17. CAPOTE, TRUMAN. A Tree of Night and Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1949. On the Fritz 5. [ARCHITECTURE] CONSTANTINO, First Edition. Fine in a minutely rubbed dust 11. BRADBURY, RAY. Dandelion Wine. LINDA WARNER. The Beach House. Build- jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First English ing an Heirloom. The Arthur M. Blank Fam- endpaper. $1500.00 Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. Presentation ily Retreat on Hilton Head Island. Atlanta: copy; inscribed by the author to Fritz Lang and Arthur M. Blank, 2003. First Edition. A lav- 18. CAPOTE, TRUMAN. The Grass Harp. his wife, “Lily - Fritz, This ‘Wine’ from other ishly produced insight into the construction and New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. years- offered with friendly wishes for the vintner design of the Blank family beach house. Blank Owner’s inscription on the front free endpaper; himself. Ray Bradbury. 10/3/63.” $1000.00 is a founder of Home Depot. Of an edition of fine in dust jacket. $500.00 500 copies printed, this is one of 100 meant to 12. BRIFFAULT, ROBERT. Psyche’s Lamp. be numbered, and signed by the author, but in 19. CARROLL, LEWIS. The Wasp in a Wig: London: George Allen & Unwin, 1921. First which neither was done. Fine in publisher’s cloth A “Suppressed” Episode of Through the Look- Edition. A very good copy. $100.00 and dust jacket. $450.00 ing-Glass...With a Preface, Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. New York: Lewis 13. BUCHAN, JOHN. The Pilgrim Fathers: 6. [ART] FREEDLEY, GEORGE. Simon Lissim. Carroll Society, 1977. First Edition. One of 750 The Newdigate Prize Poem 1898. Oxford: B.H. Fourteen Plates. With a Text by George Freedley. numbered copies. Fine. $85.00 Blackwell, 1898. First Edition. Printed wrappers New York: James Hendrickson, 1949. First Edition. with folded sheets laid in; near fine. $250.00 One of 250 copies signed by Lissim. Fine in the original slipcase, which is a little stained. $85.00 PETER L. STERN & COMPANY, INC. Copy No.1 31. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. The Misfortunes of 23. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Daredevil. London: Mr. Teal. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Ward, Lock, 1929. First Edition. A few tiny cloth First Edition. Very good; in a custom clamshell spots; very good to fine; in a custom clamshell box; Goldstone bookplate. Presentation copy; box; Kaye bookplate. Presentation copy; with inscribed by the author, “For Mother with an exceptional inscription from the author to his much love, all good wishes. Leslie Charteris. mother, “To Mother - with my love. An unlimited 21.6.34.” $1500.00 edition has been specially prepared for private circulation among the general public, of which 32. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. The Ace of Knaves. a few will be numbered & signed by the Author. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. First This is No: 1. Leslie Charteris. Second of January Edition. A very good copy in dust jacket; in a 1929.” $2500.00 quarter-leather clamshell box; Kaye bookplate. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author. “For 24. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. The Last Hero. Lon- Mother, with love, Leslie.” $2500.00 don: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. A few tiny cloth spots; very good to fine; in a custom 33. CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, H.C. The Land clamshell box; Kaye bookplate. Presentation copy; of the Castanet: Spanish Sketches. Chicago: inscribed by the author, “for Mother (and it IS a Herbert S. Stone, 1896. First Edition. Publisher’s good book). Leslie Charteris. 8.5.30.” $1500.00 decorated cloth; very good. $50.00 25. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Enter the Saint. 20. CATHER, WILLA. “The Fear That Walks London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First Edi- by Noonday” in The Sombrero. Lincoln, Ne- tion. Very good; in a custom clamshell box; braska: University of Nebraska, 1894. Original Goldstone bookplate. Signed by the author; decorated cloth; front hinge cracked; small date with his “Saint” stick man drawing, and dated stamp in the gutter of an inner page; very good “26.9.30.” $1500.00 in a custom cloth slipcase. Aside from this short story, Cather contributed a poem; her name is 26. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Knight Templar. listed as an associate editor and her picture appears London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First among several others. $4500.00 Edition. Very good; in a custom clamshell box; Kaye bookplate. Signed by the author; 21. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. The White Rider. with his “Saint” stick man drawing, and dated London: Ward, Lock, 1928. First Edition. A near “30.10.30.” $1500.00 fine copy of the author’s second book; in a custom clamshell box; Kaye bookplate. Presentation copy; 27. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. She Was A Lady. inscribed by the author, “To Auntie Y & Uncle London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1931. First Edi- George from Leslie Charteris. Thirtieth March tion. Very good; in a custom clamshell box; Kaye 1930.” $2500.00 bookplate. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Mother with love. Leslie Charteris. 22. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Meet The Tiger. 8.12.31.” $1500.00 London: Ward, Lock, 1928. First Edition of the first Saint novel. A very good to fine copy; in a 28. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Getaway. London: 34. CHRISTIE, AGATHA. Ten Little Niggers. custom clamshell box. $1000.00 Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. A few London: Collins, 1939. First Edition. Bookplate; tiny cloth spots; very good to fine; in a custom light foxing and cloth fading; very good plus in a clamshell box; Kaye bookplate. Presentation very good dust jacket with some tears and chips, copy; inscribed by the author. “Blessings/ Leslie/ the most serious of which is a triangular finger- 21.9.32.” Given the provenance, it can be as- nail-sized one at the top of the front panel. sumed that the recipient of this copy was the A highly politically incorrect title even when author’s mother.
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